As I was out riding today, I was thinking about how much I ride per week. I try to put it at least 2 hrs a day. What about everyone else?

I ride about 10 hours a week. An hour every day commuting, and then a few extra hours here and there when I have time. I'm swamped with homework usually, so I don't get out much. If I didn't have school, probably the 30-40 hour region.

I am surprised you put in two hours a day though, I figured someone that was 'wasting roadies' would be riding 10+ hours a day.

It's quality training, not volume of training.

I averaged 43 km a day in '07... if I averaged hours it would probably be 12-14 a week.

Presently I am trying to ride at least an hour a day as part of re-habbing my back.

I somewhat disagree. Most of my major muscle building has been from taking long rides. Most of these rides I averaged about 25KPH by the end of the 6 hours, which I am going to say is fairly low. However, my legs got noticeably larger and more defined. The next few rides I took I was much much faster.

This of course is just my own observations.

i ride about 5 hours a week...so that's about 175 miles.

Generally 10 miles/1 hour a day. That's home into town and back. I might ride more, or might not ride at all some days.

About 7-10 at least.

*cough*bulls**t*cough*

About 7 1/2".

This isn't the road forum. We're talking about riding, not training.

thats averaging considerably more than 30 miles an hour. Doubtful.

Man kids have it easy being able to ride downhill both ways.

Wotan - You average 30 miles per hour ?

You and piwonka both need to go and take some remedial math courses.

Pulling off a 5 hour century is a feat and that is only an average of 20 mph, a sub hour 40 requires an average speed of 25 mph.

If you can ride 30 miles in an hour you are in contention to set a new hour record.

At 42 (and a non racer) I am happy with still being able to pull down sub hour 35's (22.5 mph average).

No, I don't. When I originally read piwonka's post I thought he was making a hyper exagerated claim (averaging just over 300mph) so I thought I made an equally ridiculous claim (just under 300mph). When I realised my claim was just under 30mph I deleted it, 'cos people might think I was serious.

That math course might be a good idea.

jesus h. christ you guys are dense

i'm more interested in how many hours a week you folks spend skateboarding.

i ride about 5 hours a week...so that's about 175 miles.

What the ****. Riding just by itself won't do jack ****. Even if you're sedentary, you eventually plateau and will not be better. If you want to be faster, train by power. Powertap or SRM.

Wrong. You pick on the guy that actually rides track as the hipster?


Winter, 5hrs a week,
Summer, 15-20hrs

With my wife we avg around 12, by myself about 16.

wotan's got me beat by a lot!

Huh?

:/

edit: not nice. Shooting for nicer

Around 8-12 hours a week. I ride everday to school and work, but the "commute" isn't even over a mile round-trip so some days I'm only on my bike for less than ten minutes total. On the weekends I usually get 2 or more hours per day.